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Box: I don't know if an outsider like me intervening will fix things...

Box: But itBox: probablyKodama: And also...Box: needs to be said.

[p003]

Kodama: what's going on, percussion?Kodama: You sound exactly the same as yesterday.

Kodama: C'mon, where's your sense of unity? Are you having trouble keeping it together?

Utebi: Why... just what's going wrong... all the notes and timing are spot-on...!!Utebi: What's that "sense of unity" thing supposed to mean...!!

Utebi: Dammit...!!

(Utebi): Don't(Utebi): get in my way.

(Players): Don't tell anyone!(Players): Especially... not the chief!

[p004]

(Tokisaka): Let's(Tokisaka): play music together!!

Kamine: Utebi-senpai,Kamine: may I... have a word?(sfx) Sway

Utebi: Shut up.Utebi: I'm busy right now.

Kamine: This is... just a suggestion, but

[p005]

Kamine: how about you... switchKamine: their instruments?

Ima: You...!!

Utebi: Assigning instruments isUtebi: my job as section leader.

Utebi: You trying to say that I screwed up?!Utebi: Going and acting like you're some bigshot conductor, are ya?!!

[p006]

Kamine: Guh...

(Tokisaka): ...Kamine.

(Tokisaka): Believe in your "power" and keep moving forward!!

Kamine: Those two...!! Realized it in spite of themselves...!!

Kamine: That their current instruments aren't right for them!!Tokisaka: Won't you tell us how that happened?

Ima: At first, I thought I was in a slump.Ima: Things were always going badly and it really started wearing me out...

Ima: While I was taking a break, Ima: I happened to try out the glockenspiel.

Ima: It wasIma: really fun...

[p007]

Ima: and it turned out that Takita'd also been thinking...Ima: about playing a different percussion instrument.Ima: It's like we were a perfect match for each others' instruments.

Kamine: Every since, they've been switching instruments on occasion...Kamine: Sorry, guys... It just had to be said...

Utebi: SoUtebi: what?

Utebi: We're talking about how to bring out a sense of unity!Utebi: Don't bring up shit that's got nothing to do with it!!

Utebi: Anybody would be glad to have a breather!!Box: ...Say it.Box: Say it.Box: Say it...!Utebi: If I let them switch now, the whole section would keep falling to pieces!!Box: Say it!!Utebi: They're fine leaving things this way too, and that's why they've never said anything!!

[p008]

Kamine: It's for your sakeKamine: that they haven't said anything!!!

Utebi: Wh...Kamine: They got seriously angryKamine: where you were concerned!!

Ima/Taki: Don't badmouth the personIma/Taki: who shoulders everything by himself!!

???: It's all because the chief... Utebi-senpai is...???: aiming to be like the "previous" section leader...!

[p009]

Ima: He's always thinking about us.Ima: He's a kind senpai... who's going to retire and prepare for college exams soon.Ima: But even as that time approaches, he's desperately trying his hardest...!

Taki: All of us love Utebi-senpai...!!Taki: We would all want to stay in the percussion section forever if he were our section leader!!

Ima: We're the ones... who forced him to shoulder all that responsibility and pressure.Ima: We have to endure whatever we can!

Ima: Because we don't want toIma: selfishly trouble the chief any more than we already are...!!

Kamine: Did you know... that the members of your section...Kamine: thought of you like that?

Kamine: Utebi-senpai... Kamine: you probably

[p010]

Kamine: have difficultyKamine/boy: thinking beyond the big picture.

Kamine: That liveliness that comes out when you're playing percussionKamine: is the real you, isn't it?

Kamine: You become overly anxious, vigilant and hard-working when something is difficult for you,Kamine: but end up losing sight of your section members, right?

Kamine: These two hiding their discomfort made it more difficult to notice, but... it should have been easy to do so,Kamine: because your sound has been the core of the percussion section from the very start!!

[p011]

Kamine: Soul is what's important, just as you said.Kamine: Music comes from the human heart, after all.

Utebi: You...

Utebi: Mouthing off as if you...Utebi: know everything...Ima: Chief!

Ima: We would also like to requestTaki: a... change in instruments.(sfx): Bow...

(door sfx): SLAM!

[p012]

Utebi: Do whatever you want...Utebi: I... don't care anymore.

Kodama: Let'sKodama: continue.

(Utebi): Dammit... what the hell.(Utebi): That bastard Kamine...

(Kamine): "You probably have difficulty thinking beyond the big picture."(Utebi): Why'd he say the same thing(Utebi): as the "previous section leader"...

(Utebi): The "previous leader" took care of everything, so I could focus on playing percussion.(Utebi): I just want to be the same way and give my all for these guys!!

(Utebi): There's no way the sound's gonna(Utebi): get better based off some amateur's opi-Kodama: Percussion!

[p013]

(Utebi): -nion...

(Utebi): ...huh?

(Utebi): ...it's different than usual?!(Utebi): Even the sound I'm putting out... I can hear that it's different...(Utebi): No, that's impossible!

(Utebi): He hardly knows a thing about it...(Utebi): there's no way... the sound could be...

[p014]

(Utebi): The section... is unified?!(Utebi): No way... then what... have I been doing all this time...!!! ...And what is this feeling...

(Utebi): Hearing this sound is... getting me all fired up?!

(Boy): "You're fine like that,(Boy): mindlessly hitting away on the drums like an idiot."

(Boy): "Watching you happily pound away,(Boy): everyone else will be drawn in with smiles on their faces."

(Utebi sfx): Gasp!!

[p015]

(Utebi): ...I get it. This sound(Utebi): is the one I love most.

(Utebi): You lot... going and jumbling everything up without caring what might happen.

(Utebi): That's just(Utebi): fine by me!!

Box: The percussion section's hearts have become one...!!!Box: What the... this sound.Box: Who'd have thought that their hearts... sound... and music...

Box: would beBox: this amazing, once they'd united together!!!

Box: The impact is on a whole nother level!!Box: It sends a shock straight to my heart. ...This is just like

[p016]

(Kamine): Thunder and lightning!!!

[p017]

(from building): Thanks for your work today.

Kamine: Erm... sorry for being so brazen...Utebi: Nah, don't say that.Utebi: Thanks to you, I remembered

(Utebi sfx): GrinUtebi: that I'm justUtebi: a "percussion idiot"!

Utebi: I've given up on thinking stuff over by myself! I'll talk everything over with the whole section and we'll decide that way.Utebi: That sorta leader ain't so bad.